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The lineup is truly diverse, and represents the many different factions and facets of the Twin Cities music community. Congressman Keith Ellison will also be stopping by to make a special appearance while lending his support to this truly worthwhile ...

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Every year, we give our Picked to Click voters the chance to choose the best in new local bands. We've always been thrilled by the votes rolling in one-by-one, watching the tally marks add up for all the different Twin Cities acts. Wh...

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Daughter's two EP's are a clear depiction of pre-and-post-breakup resilience. The songs of the young London band are all full of intense emotional mood swings and weighted words. As any toxic relationship can most assuredly leave you grieving, Daught...

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The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
With Bloodshot Bill
Triple Rock Social Club, Minneapolis
October 22, 2012
Despite the fact that it was a Monday night, both the sold-out crowd that packed into the Triple Rock and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion ...

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Alison Sudol, known professionally as A Fine Frenzy, and famous for her red hair -- now blonde -- returns to her roots in more ways than one on her latest album, PINES. In the past, the singer has accomplished radio success with Clear Channel-friendl...

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Public Image Ltd.
Mill City Nights, Minneapolis
Monday, October 22, 2012
It's funny how some bands surface at a particular time and are always associated with that time, while others surface and manage to transcend it and stay timeless in a way...

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All Time Low
With The Summer Set, Hit the Lights, The Downtown Fiction
First Avenue, Minneapolis
Monday, October 22, 2012
In a sea of teenagers pushing amongst themselves, Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" comes on between The Summer Set and A...

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The xx
with John Talabot Live and 2:54
First Avenue, Minneapolis
October 19, 2012
First Avenue was virtually filled to the rafters Friday night, yet the room was made to feel downright cavernous as the xx returned to Minneapolis. "Hushed" wouldn't e...

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Yelawolf with promoter Soda (left) and club manager Beecher (right)
Yelawolf
With Vajra, Trouble Andrew, and Rittz
Epic, Minneapolis
October 19, 2012
Yelawolf was in a weird mood from the jump on Friday night at Epic. And by jump I mean the sh...

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The Smashing Pumpkins
with Anberlin
Roy Wilkins Auditorium, St. Paul
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Sometimes, you go to a show and get much more out of it than you expected to or even hoped to. Other times maybe you expect too much and are left di...

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The Twin Cites seems to always have a fresh crop of musicians too young to buy beer, but precocious enough to make an impact. While the Plastic Constellations and Howler transformed raucous adolescent energy into turbocharged (and well-received) bla...

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Among Bright Eyes frontman Conor Oberst's rosary of multi-project LPs, none of his releases have been so wonderfully against type as his one-year tenure fronting the post-hardcore act, Desaparecidos. The band released Read Music/Speak Spanish on Feb...

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Dum Dum Girls
Triple rock Social club, Wednesday 8.8
If the Ramones promised a way to love girl groups and garage bashers with freshly electrified ears, the delivery of this newer Dee Dee, Kristin Gundred of San Pedro's Dum Dum Girls, is to el...

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Stef explains, "Both of my kidneys are garbage. They've been going bad since I was a teenager." He reveals that he has been on dialysis for the past month, and thought he could continue with that type of treatment while on the road, but doctors have ...

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The lead Pumpkin spoke to us from his home in the affluent Chicago suburb of Hyde Park. He was wordy and well spoken; most notably, however, he was open - there was no topic we couldn't broach, he informed us. The conversation's only pauses were brie...

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Claire Boucher is in every sense a product of buzz. Two years ago Grimes (Boucher's stage name), though already active and putting out material, didn't quite hold the same resonance that it does today. She signed to 4AD records and proliferated quick...

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Gimme Noise caught up with San Cisco's drummer and female vocalist, Scarlett Stevens, ahead of the band's Midwestern debut at the Turf Club this Sunday evening. Stevens shared her thoughts on typical American breakfasts, the presidential debates, and...

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It was a combination
of talent, hard work and an online boost from celebrity gossip blogger Perez
Hilton that helped singer/songwriter Eric Hutchinson launch his career. After releasing his
debut album Sounds Like This independently, Hutchinson signe...